My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: definitely anti-nominalist but not in any serious sense "Platonist" |
Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: sui generis |
Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: understanding |
Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: None |
Belief or credence | Lean towards: credence |
Capital punishment | Lean towards: impermissible |
Causation | Accept an alternative view: Talk of "causation" is, as Russell said, stone-age metaphysics |
Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
Concepts | Accept an alternative view: mix |
Consciousness | Accept: dualism |
Continuum hypothesis | The question is too unclear to answer |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: brute fact |
Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
Environmental ethics | Lean towards: anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification | Accept: internalism |
Experience machine | Other |
Extended mind | Accept: no |
External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Accept: set-theoretic |
Free will | Lean towards: compatibilism |
Gender | The question is too unclear to answer |
Gender categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
God | Agnostic/undecided |
Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
Human genetic engineering | The question is too unclear to answer |
Hume | The question is too unclear to answer |
Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
Interlevel metaphysics | Accept an alternative view: the only good metaphysics is descriptive metaphysics |
Justification | The question is too unclear to answer |
Kant | The question is too unclear to answer |
Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
Knowledge claims | There is no fact of the matter |
Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
Laws of nature | Agnostic/undecided |
Logic | Accept: classical |
Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Meaning of life | Lean towards: subjective |
Mental content | Lean towards: internalism |
Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral anti-realism |
Metaontology | Accept: deflationary realism |
Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: contextual/historicist |
Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
Mind uploading | Accept: death |
Moral judgment | Accept an alternative view: error theory |
Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
Moral principles | Accept an alternative view: A bit of the one, a bit of the other, like law |
Morality | Accept: error theory |
Newcomb's problem | There is no fact of the matter |
Normative concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Normative ethics | There is no fact of the matter |
Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
Perceptual experience | Accept: qualia theory |
Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept an alternative view: The answers to what have been philosophical questions have often come to be known, but then they are no longer philosophical |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Accept: a little |
Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Political philosophy | Lean towards: libertarianism |
Politics | Lean towards: socialism |
Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
Practical reason | Accept: Humean |
Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
Proper names | Accept an alternative view: some kind of metalinguisticism |
Properties | Accept: transcendent universals |
Propositional attitudes | The question is too unclear to answer |
Propositions | The question is too unclear to answer |
Quantum mechanics | Accept an alternative view: We are very far from being able separate objective and subjective aspects |
Race | Accept: social |
Race categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
Response to external-world skepticism | The question is too unclear to answer |
Science | The question is too unclear to answer |
Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
Sleeping beauty | Accept: one-third |
Spacetime | Lean towards: substantivalism |
Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
Teletransporter | Lean towards: death |
Temporal ontology | There is no fact of the matter |
Theory of reference | Lean towards: deflationary |
Time |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | Lean towards: don't switch |
True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
Truth | Lean towards: deflationary |
Units of selection | Agnostic/undecided |
Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
Values in science | Lean towards: necessarily value-free |
Well-being | Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism |
Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: A plague on both your houses |
Zombies | Accept: metaphysically possible |